This paper examines resulting objects in English and Spanish. Fillmore's (1968) concept of effected object, e.g. He built the table has been extended to include certain resulting objects which are not sub categorized by their verbs: He kicked a hole in the door, She smiled her thanks or They pushed their way through the crowd. These constructions, we argue, are formed by fusing two semantic predicates into one: the object expresses a result while the verb designates the means by which the intended result is achieved. An analysis of corpus examples demonstrates that they are neither totally lexicalized nor regular productive patterns. The intermediate lexicalized position in question is due to a gradual metaphoric process found in this English construction, a process not allowed in Spanish. The paper concludes that the inability of Spanish to fuse two semantic predicates in this lexically unfilled resulting construction, which works independently of the particular lexical items that instantiate it, may be a consequence of the rigidity of its lexical items, which are strongly marked by morphology. The lack of inflectional information of most English words, on the contrary, confers more grammatical power to the construction.
2024. Result lexicalization with manner verbs in French: an experimental investigation of the material/product alternation and the packaging of meaning. Journal of French Language Studies► pp. 1 ff.
Gregersen, Sune
2022. Review of Bouso, Tamara. 2021. Changes in Argument Structure: The Transitivizing Reaction Object Construction. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-034-34095-3. https://doi.org/10.3726/b17960. Research in Corpus Linguistics 10:1 ► pp. 192 ff.
Levin, Beth
2022. On Dowty’s “Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection”. In A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics [Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 100], ► pp. 103 ff.
Rodríguez Arrizabalaga, Beatriz
2022. On the transitivisation of intransitive verbs. A Spanish-English contrastive corpus-based analysis of the verbs dormir and sleep. Complutense Journal of English Studies 30 ► pp. 1 ff.
2020. A Head Movement Approach to Talmy’s Typology. Linguistic Inquiry 51:3 ► pp. 425 ff.
Métairy, Justine, Peter Lauwers, Renata Enghels, Miriam Taverniers & Marleen Van Peteghem
2020. A micro-typological perspective on resultative secondary predicates: the case of nomination verb constructions. Language Sciences 78 ► pp. 101253 ff.
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